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10 Years Ago This Month: Jason West and Vince Zampella were marched out of Infinity Ward right into the eager arms of EA
March 10, 2020
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10 Years Ago This Month: South Australian attorney general compares the threats he receives while Activision Blizzard starts a new layoff tradition
Feb. 3, 2020
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10 Years Ago This Month: Red Dead Redemption and its sequel both had crunch controversies, but the studio's reactions show some change in thinking
Jan. 6, 2020
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10 Years Ago This Month: Major publishers have been narrowing their release slates for years, but has it produced the intended results?
Dec. 2, 2019
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10 Years Ago This Month: No Russian turns the mass shooting into mass market entertainment and Nokia buries the N-Gage for good
Nov. 1, 2019
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10 Years Ago This Month: The industry casually cultivates poor fan behavior, the global economic crisis strikes back, and physical media is a burning platform
Oct. 1, 2019
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10 Years Ago This Month: Media giant planned to make super hero games internally, then spent years dismantling its own studios
Sept. 4, 2019
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10 Years Ago This Month: Fallout from the 2008 global economic crisis continues as companies cope differently with sliding sales
Aug. 2, 2019
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10 Years Ago This Month: Valve buddies up with GameStop, BioWare talks industry maturity, and the expensive peripheral trend cools off
July 3, 2019
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10 Years Ago This Month: Microsoft unveils Project Natal, Sony debuts the Move controller, and optimism runs unchecked
June 3, 2019
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10 Years Ago This Month: Red Dead Redemption home stretch shows a disconnect between press and creative process
May 1, 2019
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10 Years Ago This Month: Gaming execs kill two birds with one server-based stone, while Konami insists Six Days in Fallujah has no message
April 1, 2019
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10 Years Ago This Month: Physical media falls out of favor, on-demand streaming becomes a thing, and the economy still drags
March 1, 2019
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10 Years Ago This Month: A closer look at John Riccitiello's bold claim that EA would rival Nintendo's quality of software on the Wii, and a breakdown of a post-layoff pep talk
Feb. 1, 2019
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10 Years Ago This Month: Kaz Hirai discovers heretofore unexplored levels of spin in promoting the PS3 as the global economic meltdown ripples through the industry
Jan. 2, 2019
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10 Years Ago This Month: The global economic downturn leads to a holiday season full of closures, layoffs, bankruptcies, and all-around bummers
Dec. 3, 2018
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10 Years Ago This Month: Epic and Rockstar ponder their digital futures as Media Molecule reckons with its own online woes
Nov. 1, 2018
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10 Years Ago This Month: EA CEO John Riccitiello gets into the spooky spirit of the season by promising the publisher would be an unstoppable game-cancelling machine
Oct. 2, 2018
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10 Years Ago This Month: Microsoft announces Ensemble's closing time months before it wraps development on Halo Wars
Sept. 3, 2018
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10 Years Ago This Month: Some publishers look at the recording industry's disastrous reaction to file-sharing and basically copy it
Aug. 1, 2018
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10 Years Ago This Month: Assassin's Creed was a massive success for Ubisoft, but it caused the publisher to re-think its marketing schedule
July 4, 2018
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10 Years Ago This Month: Tecmo and its star developer hit the breaking point, Jack Thompson makes a bad situation worse, and Limbo of the Lost raises the bar for innovation in appropriation
June 1, 2018
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10 Years Ago This Month: Self-regulation helps fend off threatened legislation, but mismanagement of E3 has members jumping ship
May 1, 2018
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10 Years Ago This Month: A swath of studio closures suggests how significantly the HD era upended the status quo
April 2, 2018
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10 Years Ago This Month: With a high-profile hire, a new vision, and an anticipated Alone in the Dark reboot, gaming's original titan was poised for a comeback
March 1, 2018
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